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  • Should we all be microdosing GLP-1?

    Should we all be microdosing GLP-1?

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    Robin

    Just when we thought the obsession had died down, GLP-1s are in the news again. 98 million Americans have prediabetes (and 80% don’t know it). No wonder everyone is talking about microdosing GLP-1 and a recent Wall Street Journal article is calling for putting GLP-1s in the water.  🤓 What to…

  • My personal supplement stack.

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    Robin

    I get asked so often from people if the supplements they are taking are legit, I feel like I should set up a roadside stand with a sign that says: “Will evaluate your supplement stack for $10K.” Always good to have a backup plan, right? 😉  I also get asked…

  • My cervical cancer scare

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    Robin

    Does the cure for UTIs, HPV, and BV lie in the microbiome? In my 20s, a routine pap test diagnosed abnormal cells. That led to a biopsy of my cervix called a colposcopy, which revealed I had CIN3, or “severely abnormal” precancerous cells. I was lucky to catch it while…

  • Bloating and brain fog? You’re probably low in butyrate. 

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    Robin

    The first functional medicine training I ever took was the gastrointestinal module from the Institute for Functional Medicine. It blew my mind.  As a Columbia-trained doctor, I had been taught in medical school to think about gastrointestinal health as an isolated subspecialty. Conventional medicine looked at GI health in a…